Force Feedback Vest Adds Punch To In-Game Injury

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Force Feedback Vest Adds Punch To In-Game Injury

Force feedback is, for the uninitiated, a characteristic of expensive game controllers designed to mimic the resistance of real-world physics. What this means in practice is steering wheels that won't turn as easily, joysticks that vibrate, and so on. Now you can have a force feedback vest, created by Mark Ombrellaro.

This item purports to offer just a little of the visceral fun of real-life injury, using compressed air to batter your torso this way and that while playing appropriately-patched titles. The $190 vest will be available later this year. The best use I can imagine for it would be to mimic encumbrance in all those role-playing gaming where one can dash around while supposedly loaded with 175lb of armor, food and a Walgreen's worth of potions.